The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 91
They took care beforehand to make a blazing hot fire under the bath, so that the lovely young Queen might be suffocated.
Who acts: adventures · What happens: take, care, make, blaze, suffocate · To what, where: blazing hot fire, bath, lovely young Queen
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | ccomp |
| 4 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 8 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 fire | amod |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fire | amod |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 bath | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bath | det |
| 13 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 suffocated | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 suffocated | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 18 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Queen | amod |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Queen | amod |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 suffocated | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 suffocated | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 suffocated | aux:pass |
| 23 | suffocated | suffocate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 make | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | adventures = adventure | beforehand property | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | care | present | adventures = adventure not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | adventures = adventure not said here | a blazing hot fire | the bath | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | |||
| 4 | blaze | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | suffocate | might · passive | the lovely young Queen | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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